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Thread started 07/15/04 3:20am

MrSquiggle

Bjork's "Alarm Call" is about Michael Jackson

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Due to the production-title "Jacko" as found on the Homogenic demo tape, it is rumored to be a song in tribute to Michael Jackson.


eek Wow. I knew they were fans of each other but I never would have guessed that.

I have walked this earth
and watched people
I can be sincere
and say I like them
you can't say no to hope
can't say no to happiness

I want to go on a mountain-top
with a radio and good batteries
and play a joyous tune
and free the human race from suffering

I'm no fucking Buddhist
but this is enlightenment
the less room you give me
the more space I've got

this is an alarm-call
so wake-up wake-up now

today has never happened
and it doesn't frighten me
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Reply #1 posted 07/15/04 3:22am

MrSquiggle

I love this song, btw, even more than I love MJ's music. It's esctastically esctastic.
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Reply #2 posted 07/15/04 4:08am

Luv4oneanotha

Michael Jackson, the Beer hunter??
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Reply #3 posted 07/15/04 6:32am

MrSquiggle

Luv4oneanotha said:

Michael Jackson, the Beer hunter??


rolleyes lol
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Reply #4 posted 07/15/04 8:56am

Cloudbuster

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Where have you been!? I've known this for a long time. lol
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Reply #5 posted 07/15/04 9:10am

OdysseyMiles

MrSquiggle said:

bjork.com says:Due to the production-title "Jacko" as found on the Homogenic demo tape, it is rumored to be a song in tribute to Michael Jackson.


"Rumor" being the key word here. Maybe it is about MJ, but if you look at the lyrics in the booklet for Homogenic it appears that this song is a group of one-line self-affirmations that are directed towards the author. I can't seem to see the connection to MJ, but I can see where someone would want to give the poor guy a wake up call. biggrin
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Reply #6 posted 07/15/04 9:43am

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OdysseyMiles said:

MrSquiggle said:

bjork.com says:Due to the production-title "Jacko" as found on the Homogenic demo tape, it is rumored to be a song in tribute to Michael Jackson.


"Rumor" being the key word here. Maybe it is about MJ, but if you look at the lyrics in the booklet for Homogenic it appears that this song is a group of one-line self-affirmations that are directed towards the author. I can't seem to see the connection to MJ, but I can see where someone would want to give the poor guy a wake up call. biggrin


Demos have working titles for various reasons. Maybe the music was inspired by Jacko... I don't see how the lyrics could be in "tribute" to him at all, except for in the first verse...

I have walked this earth
and watched people
I can be sincere
and say I like them


Maybe that's about how Michael used to say that kids are so honest and that's why he relates to them more...

Perhaps a situation with Michael inspired her to start the song... this has happened to me before. Like my song Naked: the baseline and melody came to me after work when I walked into the breakroom and a guy was changing into his uniform. He said "You almost saw me naked." And on the way home the music came to me and I titled the musical idea "Naked". Later I wrote a poem about myself and it fit with the music. So the song isn't about the little boy I might have seen naked, it's about me. Dig?
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